PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

Cai-Yuan Wang Designer, shared her life history after her pregnancy as a starting point for the imagination of social housing. Child's birth has changed her perspective to see a different face of the community which she used to be familiar with. Only understanding the needs of the reality, following the context, the design can deep down to the life essence, return to the original temperature between people.

Dung-lung Wu Author of《100の東京大人味發見》 Prefaced with a sentence 'the work doesn't need creativity and enthusiasm would be replaced by a robot in the next decade'. Designer, Wu Dung-lung, thinks our life will have a huge change in the next 1 or 2 decades. 'Social Housing' will play an important role to stable the society. He also uses a design perspective to observe the social housing and community in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan.

Wang Zhe and Cheng-Hen Yu, Architects, think the establishment of human's relationship and the delighted events of life from the 'open space (Garden)'. The proposal 'Fluid Garden' attempts to have the 'virtual space' become the main part of the building with different levels of Garden. By using the fluid patterns, link up the relationship between people, so that create a public courtyard providing the interaction with the city, in the meantime, people can still retain private courtyard shared with family.

Chia-Ming Chang , Real estate developer, shared his perspective from real estate business. From confirming the target object to solve the issues of housing needs and combining the power of the community and so on. Reverse the thinking of a manufacturer to the service provider, promoting the new business mode of social housing.

Chung-sheng Liu, Architect, started talking from living and social environment relationship. From the map of ancient frescoes found in Italy and Yan'an cave of Chinese traditional residence to explore the pattern of nomadic city or collective living whether corresponds to the current lessened urban-rural gap, and under the change of convenient transportation and developed technology, the social housing might bring life imagination.

Yang-kai Peng is the justice activity leader of Taiwan. He talked from the definition of social housing, from 'only rent not for sell', 'vulnerable priority', and 'affordable rent' ways to clarify. And also from the points of 'residence', 'charity', and 'externalities' to compare Taiwan with the advanced countries, to figure out how to plan the social housing through participatory design.

Bo-Ting Zeng, Architect, has worked on how to make the social housing design become more interesting. From the point of considering the family member's needs basing on different resident age, to have a good quality of life. For example, allowing the retired elders to take care of the young children so that the young people would have no worries at their work. It will complete people's complementary function in society. Shifting the public space from the lower floors to a higher one and so on would also play alternative imagination of social housing.

Wen-Yuan Peng , Architect, concerned the adequate problem of living quality. Among the disadvantaged groups the social housing cared for, different types have their own demand. Industry vicissitude of the environment and the affections of energy and food crisis, using vitamin therapy or amoeba concept to meet the unique needs of different communities so called 'appropriate residence '

Xu-zhong Fang, Designer, described the stories which from the link of residence and people. He reserved the vanishing memory through design, took a photography recording his hometown, Gonghe new village of Donggang in Pingtung County, where is well-preserved military community, to find the forgotten or lost element from past and put it into the designed commodities as a record and also allow people to memory it.

Cheng-Han Chiu, The owner of travel lodge, talked from space continuing to the nearby old city's community operating. The key point of interaction should focus on 'people', and housing should bring 'warmth' to people. He used 'old-fashioned' as the core of sharing, discussing park, traditional market, breakfast shops and so on old community composition, how to integrate the imagination of social housing and community building.